KXStudio is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production. Besides developing a complete operating system on a live DVD, the project also provides a custom set of audio applications and utilities (such as a full-featured audio plugin host and a JACK patch bay), a wide range of open-source audio plugins and Linux ports, and software repositories compatible with the Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu distributions.

To compare the software in this project to the software available in other distributions, please see our Compare Packages page.

Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "plasma-desktop" package and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.

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Version: 14.04.5Rating: 9Date: 2018-11-29Votes: 0

tried this distro in order to get my old Alesis Multimix16 Firewire to work (in ubuntustudio jack/alsa didn't recognize the in/out channels. The device itself showed up as "DICE" device and its friendly name "Alesis Multimix".

In KXStudio after configuring jack to the firewire driver everything worked out of the box, though the device did not show up at any place (aplay -l, cat /proc/asound/cards etc).

Great stuff!

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Version: 14.04.5Rating: 10Date: 2018-11-18Votes: 2

KXStudio and their have contributed greatly by creating apps of their own and that's the main reason I tried KXStudio!

Everything works out of the box and I'm currently making my own songs that hopefully I'll release some day! =D

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Version: 14.04.5Rating: 10Date: 2018-08-18Votes: 0

KXStudio is the best GNU/Linux pro audio set-up I've used. After struggling to get set-up Ardour, JACK, etc running smoothly on a more general purpose distro, I decided just to install KXStudio on a separate partition. Everything worked perfectly out of the box. I cannot recommend it enough.

It comes with such a wealth of audio software that there are still plenty of synths and plug-ins I probably have yet to discover. Highly recommended!!